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The True Meaning of Easter
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April 3, 2010
Reader Comments (62)
This is not a "How to" a holiday special it must be.
Hilarious! I always referred to Easter as "Zombie Jesus Day" but this is even better!
Hmmm, not one of your funnier strips.
I say that without religious bias, as I "am not now nor have I ever been" a Christian. I mention this because I can imagine some humor impaired Christians taking offense. Let them speak for themselves, though. I may be doing people an injustice.
This one just falls a bit flat. I usually post positive comments, so hopefully you won't mind the occasional negative one.
"I'm all puffed up with faint pride" <-- best line ever!
As good an explanation as any.
The real meaning of Easter was captured well by Eddie Izzard: It's a pagan festival to celebrate the spring solstice. The eggs represent fertility, the rabbits represent shagging.
I don't think they were eating rabbit at the Last Supper as it was a seder. Rabbit is treyf.
http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/practices/kosher.htm
Still, the details are unimportant......
MP, gotta disagree - Christian here (Baptist to boot), and I found it hilarious.
I loved this one. Faint pride was definitely the best line.
Well... As a "Christian" thank you for acknowledging Easter without derision. Ignorance maybe, but not derision. Enjoy symbolizing the resurrection.
I "am now and will always be" a Christian...I thought the strip was funny. Easter has a lot of meaning for me...doesn't mean there's no room for laughter though...:-).
MP is a tool. I'm a Christian and I thought this one was hilarious! (S)he probably finds it less funny BECAUSE (s)he's not a Christian, and so doesn't really get how we view the holiday.
I'm both a Christian and a professor of biblical studies (the two don't always go together, but they do in my case), and I found this one hilarious. I don't think too many Christians will be offended (in response to MP above) - in fact, I'll probably display this one in my classes next week.
Why Easter baskets? Maybe because so many of his followers started as basket cases? Best I can think of so far.
I doubt many Christians would be offended by this. It's basically some guy coming up with insane explanations of how the non-biblical commercial element of Easter can be explained in reference to the life of Jesus, when clearly it cannot be.
Zombie Jesus craved Eggs.
lol, too funny! And wow, some folks on here have no sense of humor.
I'm a Christian, too, and I also found this funny. A lot of the Easter stuff (eggs, rabbits) were probably from a pagan celebration. I remember reading that some Christiian holidays were merged to include stuff from pagan holidays around the same time, probably in an effort for everyone to get along (or at least not kill each other too much).
I get a little tired sometmies hearing from people like MP who think all Christians have no sense of humor. There's a lot of Christians out there, and that means a lot of people with a lot of individual characteristics.
Most excellent....
Unfortunatly, he doesn't mention anything about the origins of 'Peeps'...
Rainbow-hued as they may have been, they were probably all Asian, no?
I'm a Christian, too, and while it didn't make me LOL like some of your strips, definitely got a smile. :) I agree; "I'm all puffed up with faint pride!" is the best line of the strip :D
Another Christian here who found it hilarious!
Also, totally recognise the pagan symbolism (had to hold back my answer when the Rev. asked us "why do we have eggs at Easter?" in service this morning!) - I sort of get why the Church did it way back in the beginning, but really...!
Finally, as others have said, "faint pride" - best line EVER! (In fact, it should probably go on a t-shirt)
...ISHTA...uh, I mean EASTER...toss another infant on the fire!
Thank their god, the christians aren't offended. Who knew there were so many here?
the Middle East is usually considered part of Asia from a physical geography standpoint, so all the Apostles were probably Asian, technically. but enough splitting hares - pass the Cadbury eggs!
Sucks to be MP. Trying to be the savior and protect Christians, and only to be semi-bashed by almost every one of them and proven wrong as well.
I can't say I'm Christian. But this is as understandable as any other explanation I've received thus far. Hehe.